Category: Writing

A Reasonable Doubt – Book Review – Murder

A Reasonable Doubt, by Edgar Smith was published in August 1970 by Coward-McCann. The reader cannot begin to read this book before understanding who the author is and the circumstances in which it was written. Edgar Smith was a convicted murderer of a fifteen year old girl in the New Jersey and sitting in solitary […]

David Gordon’s Excellent Japanese Adventure

David Gordon is the author of  two novels and a collection of short stories, “White Tiger on Snow Mountain” coming out this fall.  His writing career is off the ground but  until a little while ago not exactly soaring.  Suddenly all kinds of good once in a lifetime things began to happen to David.  I’ll […]

Against Sending Your Blog Readers on a Space Walk w/o a Tether

Page Views We watch the page view stats on our  blog because the number of page views are more important than the number of unique visits we get daily. If we have more page views than visits in our daily statistics it indicates that we are successful in keeping our visitors on our page, moving around, […]

Books You Wear and The Mysterious Semi-Viral Tweet

‘Wearable Book’ Lets You Experience Your Favorite Book Character’s Emotions      Far Out English Historical Fiction Authors: Castles 101     All About Castles Why You Should Use Images on Twitter and 3 Tips to Doing it Right    Comprehensive Treatment of the Subject The Mysterious Case of the Semi-Viral Tweet     How did this […]

Can Novel Newbies Learn Anything From Elite Athletes?

This post starts out at the NY Times article by Gina Kolata entitled “Training Insights From Star Athletes” of January 14, 2013.  http://nyti.ms/UNpDPE  Here’s how Gina begins: Of course elite athletes are natually gifted .  And of course they train hard and may have a phalanx of support staff – coaches, nutritionists, psychologists. But they often have something else that gives […]

When is a story not really a story, and who cares anyway?

  Story Writing – the Open Door A novel is definitely a story, even if you don’t like it. Maybe it’s not your cup of tea genre-wise.  Maybe it doesn’t rise to your estimation of what makes a good thriller. Maybe you just can’t keep reading it.  Whatever. The same thing holds for a novella. […]

Interview of Harlan Baker, Actor, Director and Playwright

I’m pleased to have Harlan Baker as the subject for this interview.  Harlan is an adjunct professor in the Theatre department at the University of Southern Maine, an actor, a former member of the Maine legislature, a union activist, and democratic socialist. He  studied theater at Emerson College and graduated in 1969, and has a […]